| Place | Oceania: Australia |
|---|---|
| Accession Number | PR04960 |
| Collection type | Private Record |
| Record type | Collection |
| Measurement | 1 wallet: 2 cm. |
| Object type | Diary, Notebook |
| Maker |
Startin, Ian Hamilton 'Tony' |
| Place made | At sea, Australia, Japan |
| Date made | 1945 |
| Access | Open |
| Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
| Copying Provisions | Copyright restrictions apply. Only personal, non-commercial, research and study use permitted. Permission of copyright holder required for any commercial use and/or reproduction. |
Startin, Ian Hamilton (Gunner, b.1916 - d.1995)
Description
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX45693 Gunner Ian 'Tony' Hamilton Startin, 2/15 Field Regiment RAA. Following the fall of Sinagpore in February 1942, Gunner Startin became a prisoner of the Japanese and spent the following three and a half years in various prisoner of war camps in Thailand and Japan.
Collection consists of three notebooks.
1. A brown notebook has been written as a diary covering the period 20 September to 13 October 1945, from when Startin boarded a US ship after being liberated until his return to Australia. Spare pages at the end of the notebook have been used post-war.
2. A second notebook has had the original diary re-written into it. It covers the same period, but has been extended with notes written by Startin's wife commencing from her husbands release from the POW processing base at Ingleburn, and records their marriage in 1946 and some of their post-war life together.
3. The third book is a Japanese receipt book, the backs of the pages have been used by Startin to record names and addresses of his fellow prisoners of war. It also contains a chronology of his experience and lists of those killed or missing. Startin was held in th Hiroshima 2B Niihama prisoner of war camp.